Injuries are a major but neglected global public health problem. In the low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), the problem is particularly acute due to disproportionately high incidence of injuries. Most of these injuries are preventable with appropriate interventions. Lack of complete, accurate and timely injury data is one of the main obstacle for injury prevention in LMICs. In 2001, World Health Organization (WHO) published injury surveillance guidelines emphasizing the importance of injury surveillance at country levels to cope with this grave problem. Although most of the developed countries have developed their own injury surveillance systems, there is no customizable generic injury surveillance system which can be used in LMICs. However, District Health Information System 2 (DHIS2) is a free and open source application used in many countries to collect aggregated public health data. Although it is being used for aggregated public health data it has not being used for injury surveillance.
Objective
To customize and pilot an open source public health information tool (DHIS2) for injury surveillance in a resource constrained setting, Sri Lanka.